unity-tweak-tool overwrites custom config without user interaction

[Alistair Buxton]

Steps to reproduce:

1. Configure system exactly how you want it using gnome-tweak-tool and ccsm.
2. Run unity-tweak-tool and view each settings panel without changing any settings.

What happens:

Each panel you view resets all customized settings to the unity-tweak-tool defaults. For example, viewing the "theme" panel will reset the Gtk theme and window decorations to Ambiance, and viewing other panels will wipe out compiz shortcut key settings.

What should happen instead:

unity-tweak-tool should not change any settings unless I specifically click in the controls to change them.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: unity-tweak-tool 0.0.4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-19.30-generic 3.8.8
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-19-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu May 23 07:06:26 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-04-26 (26 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: unity-tweak-tool
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[J Phani Mahesh (phanimahesh)]

That is a serious issue, except that I am unable to reproduce it.

Can you upgrade to 0.0.5 from our PPA and check if the problem persists?
Does opening unity-tweak-tool reset the settings or do you have to
select each tab?
Does this happen each time you use the application or only some times?
If it does not happen always, can you try to isolate one test case when
the bug can be reproduced reliably? like setting an environment variable
or doing some actions in some order, etc.

P.S : unity-tweak-tool does not have any default settings, at least none
that I recall. It queries gsettings backend and updates the user
interface when it starts. If any particular control doesn't, thats a bug
and will be fixed when found.

[Alistair Buxton (a-j-buxton)]

You have to actually select the tab, not just the icon on the front page.
ie

1. Set window decorations to to "Human" using gnome-tweak-tool
2. Open unity tweak tool
3. Click "theme" icon
4. Click "icons" tab
5. Click "theme" tab

Now window decorations revert to ambiance.

On 23 May 2013 19:14, J Phani Mahesh <email address hidden> wrote:
> That is a serious issue, except that I am unable to reproduce it.
>
> Can you upgrade to 0.0.5 from our PPA and check if the problem persists?
> Does opening unity-tweak-tool reset the settings or do you have to
> select each tab?
> Does this happen each time you use the application or only some times?
> If it does not happen always, can you try to isolate one test case when
> the bug can be reproduced reliably? like setting an environment variable
> or doing some actions in some order, etc.
>
> P.S : unity-tweak-tool does not have any default settings, at least none
> that I recall. It queries gsettings backend and updates the user
> interface when it starts. If any particular control doesn't, thats a bug
> and will be fixed when found.
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1183204
>
> Title:
> unity-tweak-tool overwrites custom config without user interaction
>
> Status in “unity-tweak-tool” package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Steps to reproduce:
>
> 1. Configure system exactly how you want it using gnome-tweak-tool and ccsm.
> 2. Run unity-tweak-tool and view each settings panel without changing any settings.
>
> What happens:
>
> Each panel you view resets all customized settings to the unity-tweak-
> tool defaults. For example, viewing the "theme" panel will reset the
> Gtk theme and window decorations to Ambiance, and viewing other panels
> will wipe out compiz shortcut key settings.
>
> What should happen instead:
>
> unity-tweak-tool should not change any settings unless I specifically
> click in the controls to change them.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
> Package: unity-tweak-tool 0.0.4
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-19.30-generic 3.8.8
> Uname: Linux 3.8.0-19-generic x86_64
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Thu May 23 07:06:26 2013
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-04-26 (26 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
> MarkForUpload: True
> PackageArchitecture: all
> SourcePackage: unity-tweak-tool
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-tweak-tool/+bug/1183204/+subscriptions

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Alistair Buxton
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[Alistair Buxton (a-j-buxton)]

Here is a video: http://youtu.be/CnCwGMVcQWI

[Alistair Buxton (a-j-buxton)]

(the panel in the screenshot appears to do the same thing - it disabled compiz ezoom settings when visited)

[Alistair Buxton (a-j-buxton)]

please ignore last comment, i can;t reproduce the effect with compiz/ccsm, only with the theme panel.

[Sera (seraphim6x7)]

Something like this affected me as well. After my first startup after installing unity-tweak-tool my Unity icons had reverted to the default icon set. The gtk theme was unchanged.

I can't remember if I opened unity-tweak-tool before I restarted. I then tried to reset the icon theme but the Unity icons did not change (the gtk theme did). After uninstalling unity-tweak-tool I still could not change the icon theme (using ubuntu-tweak). After a restart changing the icon theme worked as expected.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.